{"id":18793,"date":"2009-03-16T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/03\/16\/overheard-conversation-fragment-shrimp-is-not-vegetables\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T10:00:01","slug":"overheard-conversation-fragment-shrimp-is-not-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090316-01\/?p=18793","title":{"rendered":"Overheard conversation fragment: Shrimp is not vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walked past a woman in the grocery store who was talking on her mobile phone. I only caught one sentence. She said, in an annoyed voice, &#8220;Shrimp is not vegetables.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> (Then again, <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20070323070521AAFf9m2\"> purple is a fruit<\/a>, so anything&#8217;s possible.) <\/p>\n<p> <b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/03\/16\/9480126.aspx#9482037\"> manicmarc<\/a> correctly deduced that the tone and body language of the person on the phone indicated that her previous sentence in the conversation was something like &#8220;What vegetables do you want to have with dinner?&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked past a woman in the grocery store who was talking on her mobile phone. I only caught one sentence. She said, in an annoyed voice, &#8220;Shrimp is not vegetables.&#8221; (Then again, purple is a fruit, so anything&#8217;s possible.) Update: manicmarc correctly deduced that the tone and body language of the person on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-18793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I walked past a woman in the grocery store who was talking on her mobile phone. I only caught one sentence. She said, in an annoyed voice, &#8220;Shrimp is not vegetables.&#8221; (Then again, purple is a fruit, so anything&#8217;s possible.) Update: manicmarc correctly deduced that the tone and body language of the person on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}